“A Ukrainian Cabinet Ministers meeting was just held…and the decision to call for an emergency situation was made at the government level. The government has made the decision to implement an emergency situation in the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions,” Yatsenyuk said.

The prime minister added that Kiev decided to heighten the alert level across the country. "The reason for making this decision is to completely coordinate the activities of all the powers of authority and provide security for the citizens,” he said.